How to Add Post Thumbnails to the WordPress Post and Page Management Screens

How to Add Post Thumbnails to the WordPress Post and Page Management Screens

If you’re producing a lot of content on your WordPress site, it can be handy to see the main image associated with each post when viewing the post or page listing screen. Adding in the post thumbnail creates a visual association for each post or page.

If you’d like to make the thumbnails a different size, you can change the $width and $height values in the code above. You can even enlarge it to a few hundred pixels so that the post thumbnail is the strongest identifying factor of the listing.

Click save and then go visit your post or page management screens. You should see the new post thumbnails column. That’s all you need to do. Pretty simple, wasn’t it?

Sarah Gooding is a partner at Untame, a boutique digital marketing firm specializing in open source content management systems and social networking architecture. She enjoys staying on top of the latest WordPress and BuddyPress news. Get in touch with Sarah on Twitter @pollyplummer

Hi Sarah! Been finding a lot of good stuff following your posts. I am wondering how i can use this with Gravity Forms. I would like to have the images posted to categories, then have a thumbnail auto post to certain pages “depending on the category it was uploaded to” Is there a tutorial you know of or multiple tutorials that could get me going in the proper direction? Thanks!